Liam

Expected line-up from Stoke. Only surprise is Choupo upfront over Jese but in reality it'll be a mixture of Jese and Choupo. Hoping for a sneaky win but would take a draw. C'mon Stoke!

Inevitable Joselu scores today btw.

Newcastle 1-1 Stoke Butland Zouma MartinsIndi Wimmer Diouf Fletcher Allen Pieters Shaqiri Choupo Jese Jese goal.

That Fabianski save was class. Proper pisses me off when the opposition goalkeeper saves something like that. Joselu very unlucky.

Like the look of that Merino fella. Tidy footballer.

Joselu hugging Mark Clattenburg after he gave a penalty to Stoke in the 90th minute against Everton.

Decent signing. Shrewd. That poster on the Oatcake saying Stoke will go down if Hughes sells him is a bit OTT.

Bilic is really an awful manager, we play them in 2 games, hope he's still around by then. Aye. Can't believe how poor they looked tbh. Defensively a shambles. Going forward even worse. He's still riding off the Payet hype in my opinion. No coincidence that since he's fooked off Wet Sham have turned to complete shite.

Bit late to the show but I'm still mildly amused by how poor West Ham were earlier . Seeing Arnautovic play like shite has proper cheered my Sunday evening up.

Stoke close to Jesé Rodriguez on loan with view to perm from PSG.

How bothered are you about potentially losing him? A bit disappointed to be honest mate. He's a decent player. His record looks poor on paper (something like 5 goals in 25 appearances) but that doesn't take into account the amount of times he's played a full 90, with the majority of his apps being from the bench. He went out on loan last season to Deportivo and performed well albeit a long injury. 100% should've been given more of a chance at Stoke but unfortunately Hughes' complete incompetence at managing strikers correctly, which is terribly ironic considering how good Sparky was in his prime, meant he became a bit of a scapegoat when things were going wrong in the final third. Not at all surprised we've let him go mind, Stoke have been actively looking for a buyer for a year now, but I am surprised we've let him go for £5m tbh and under a manager that can use strikers correctly I can only assume he'll turn out to be a very shrewd signing for yous.

Joselu close to yous.

Joselu not in the Stoke team.

hi bbe, tell us all about this spanish man Decent player. Should've been given more chances at Stoke but Hughes' constant rotation meant he never really had a solid run of games. Target man; he had the best header completion when he first arrived from Hannover (Hasn't really showcased that at Stoke mind). Very good finisher, more often then not his shots will test the keeper. Completely different player to Lucas Perez mind. Would be confused if you want one or the other. £5-6m is probably his current value in todays market.

Bid of around £3m for Joselu turned down. Stoke want closer to what they payed for him.